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CAR. APPLICATION FILED FEB. 14. 1919.

Patented Feb. 1, 1921.

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APPLICATION flLED FEB. 1'4. 1919, Pamnted Feb. 1,1921

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 1. 1921.

Application filed February 14, 1919. Serial No. 277,004.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Gnonon M. FITE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Newhall, in the county of McDowell and State of West Virginia, have invented new and useful Improvements in Cars, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has reference to a slate dump car for coal mines.

The object of the invention is to produce a slate dump car which can be arranged in close quarters in a mine without interfering with the passage of the regular coal cars, and Wllif h may be readily dumped to remove slate therefrom, so that an accumulation of slate may be deposited any required place or places in or near the mine.

Other objects and advantages will present themselves as the nature of the invention is better understood, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which: i

Figure 1 is a side elevation of the improvement.

Fig. 2isa top plan view thereof.

Fig. 8 is an end elevation.

Fig. t is a sectional view approximately on the line l-d of Fig.

My improvementincludes a frame which includes sills 1 having longitudinal beams 2 secured to the under face thereof, the latter being provided with bearings 3 for the shafts 1 on which are secured flanged wheels 5 that travel on rails 6 of a spur track. Each sill 1. at one of the ends thereof is provided with uprights 7 and secured to the top 7 of the said uprights are angularly disposed brace rods 8, connecting the uprights 7 with the sills 1. Preferablythe connections between the brace members and the uprights are adjustable, the rods 8 having threaded ends which are engaged by nuts 9.

The lower ends of the brace rods 8 are secured to the projecting ends of what I will term the outerbeam 2, while pivotally secured. as at 10 to the sills are track rails 1.1. By reference to the drawings it will be noted that the track rails 11 are pivoted adjacent to the inner ends thereof and the said inner ends are curved or rounded upon themselves as indicated by the numerals 12. The rails 11 are so spaced as to be arranged between the sills 1, so that the said rails may swing therehetween. The outer end of the rails rest on and extend beyond the beam 24 that is connected between the front ends of the sills 1. The rails 11 are retained in proper spaced relation with each other by both transverse and diagonal braces 13 and 14 respectively. The rails 11 are designed to receive a slate dump car 15, and it will. be apparent that when the said car is wheeled to bring one end thereof into contacting cngagement with the curved inner end ofthe rails 11, the said car and rails may be swung upon the pivots lO'so that the contents of the car 15 may be dumped therefrom.

Journaled in suitable bearings at what I have termed the outer end of the sills 1 is a transverse shaft 16. Around this shaft and secured thereto is a chain 17 the said chain having a hook at the free end thereof which. engages in an eye 18 in the outer transverse connecting bar between the rails 11. Se

cured on one end of the shaft 16 is a toothed wheel 19 engaged by a dog 20 on the beam 2. Straddling the toothed wheel 19 and loosely arranged on the shaft 16 is the bifurcated end 21 of an operating lever 22. This lever is provided with a spring pressed pawl 23 that engages with the toothed wheel, so that the shaft can be revolved when the lever is actuated in one direction. By releasingthe dog 20 and the pawl 23 the car, when. brought to the position above'referred to will be permitted to dump automatically. By operating the lever the track and car will be brought to their initial position.

With my improvement the rear or clumping end of the frame is open so that the slate from the car will properly pass therefrom between the sills to the uprights 7 at the rear end of the frame. The top member 7 serves as a stop for preventing the car being thrown off the frame, while the curved ends 12 of the'rails hold the outer wheels of the car thereon. The top beams 7' as well as the up rights 7 are effectively supported by the diagonal braces 8.

The track provided by the rails 11 is of a width similar to that of the track 11 in the mine and the car is loaded in the mine with slate or other debris and is run out of the mine to a point where it is placed 011 the track rails 11 of the improvement. The wheeled frame car is then moved on the spur track rails 6 to a point where the waste material is to be unloaded and the car is then dumped. From experience, I have found that with my improvement, two men cando as much work in handling slate or debris as usually requires a large number when such materials are conveyed by hand. When the car of waste or slate is brought out to where the side dump car is on the track it is so arranged that the spur track is perhaps two or two and one-half feet lower, and the loaded car is placed upon the dump car and the same power is used as is employed at the car mine for moving the dump car. The spur track is made as much lower than the mine track as the side dump ear is higher. The advantage gained by reason of the side dump car is that the same may be unloaded anywhere along the spur track and when an entire space has been filled along the side of the spur track only a short time is required to set the track over and the waste material may be employed for increasing the yardage, which, of course, is highly desir- Having thus described the invention, what 'is claimed as new, is

1. In a side dump apparatus for slate or waste cars for coal mines, the combination of a main track for the mine car and a spur track at the end of the main track positioned 'therebelow and at an angle thereto; of a car from the main track, and the said mine car, when on the rails of the dump car designed by the weight thereof to swing said rails and to bring the mine car to dumping position,.means for holding the mine car on the said rails when in dumping position,

means for returning the rails of the dump car to normal position to permit of the mine car being moved off of the said rails on to the rails of the main track, and said means also operable for holding the rails of the dump car from tilting either before or after the mine car is arranged thereon.

2. In a side dump apparatus for slate or waste cars for coal mines, the combination of a main track on which the mine car travels, a spur track at the terminal of the main track arranged therebelow and at an angle with respect thereto; of a side dump car traveling on the spur track, transverse sills on the body of the ear, uprights on the outer ends of the sills, a connecting member for the uprights, angle braces between the uprights and the body of the dump car, a, track comprising two spaced rails, disposed between the sills and having their outer ends rounded upwardly, and the said rails being pivotally supported between the sills, means for retaining the rails in a position whereby the same will aline with the rails of the main track so that a mine car from the main track may be moved on to the rails of the dump car, and the said mine car, when arran ed on the dump car designed, by virtue of the weight thereof to tilt the rails of the dump ear to bring the mine car to dumping position, lever operated means for returning the rails and dump ear to initial position for permitting the dump car to again be moved on to the rails of the main track, and said means also designed for retaining the rails of the dump car in normal initial position.

In testimony whereof I allix my signature.

GEORGE M. Frrn. 

